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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2022)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Redondo
Session Chair:
Nolan Goth (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Franklin Curtis (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
W. David Pointer
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Investigation of Point-Contact Strategies for CFD Simulations of Pebble Bed Reactor Cores
Nolan Goth (ORNL), Thien Duy Nguyen (ORNL), W. David Pointer (ORNL)
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Design and CFD Analysis of Printed Circuit Steam Generator for High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Applications
Chengqi Wang (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan)
Testing of a Large Scale RCCS Operating at Two-Phase Accident Conditions
Q. Lv (ANL), D. Lisowski (ANL), M. Jasica (ANL), Z. Ooi (ANL), A. Kraus (ANL), R. Hu (ANL), M. Farmer (ANL)
TRISO Transient Analysis: Systematic Comparison of RELAP and BISON Predictions for HTGR RIA Simulations
Carlotta G. Ghezzi (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Robert F. Kile (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville)
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